ASTM E3136-18
(Guide)Standard Guide for Climate Resiliency in Water Resources
Standard Guide for Climate Resiliency in Water Resources
SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
4.1 This Guide addresses issues related solely to resiliency strategies and the development of a plan to address extreme weather and related physical and chemical changes to water resources. This guide does not include specific advice on risk assessment, however, references are provided in Appendix X1. Adaptation and resiliency design strategies and planning may consist of a wide variety of actions by individuals, communities, or organizations to prepare for, or respond to, the impacts of chronic and extreme natural and manmade events.
4.2 Example Users:
4.2.1 Small business or enterprise owners;
4.2.2 Service industry employees;
4.2.3 Federal, tribal, state or municipal facility staff and regulators, including departments of health; water, sewer and fire departments;
4.2.4 Financial and insurance institutions;
4.2.5 Public works staff, including water systems, groundwater supplies, surface water supplies, stormwater systems, wastewater systems, publically owned treatment works, and agriculture water management agencies;
4.2.6 Consultants, auditors, state, municipal and private inspectors and compliance assistance personnel;
4.2.7 Educational facilities;
4.2.8 Property, buildings and grounds management, including landscaping staff;
4.2.9 Non-regulatory government agencies, such as the military;
4.2.10 Wildlife management entities including government, tribal, and NGOs;
4.2.11 Cities, towns and counties, especially in developing climate vulnerability strategies and plans;
4.2.12 Commercial and residential real estate property developers, including redevelopers;
4.2.13 Non-profits, community groups, and property owners.
4.3 This Guide is a first step in crafting a simplified framework for managing and communicating risks. The framework describes a process by which the user may categorize current climate risks and a priority approach to manage those risks. The technique classifies common responses for both mitigation and re...
SCOPE
1.1 Overview—Water resources in North America and other areas are subject to various impacts from chronic weather patterns, as well as more frequent extreme weather events. These include drought, flooding, changes in stream patterns, increased or decreased run-off, and changes in water quality. Water resources include both man-made and natural reservoirs, rivers, streams, groundwater, and storage ponds. The infrastructure for water supply, wastewater treatment, fire-fighting and agricultural uses are also subject to chronic weather patterns and more frequent extreme weather related events. This guide will provide an explanation of techniques users may employ to build resiliency and a planning outline for municipalities, states and private industry in order to ensure safe, future, effective availability of water resources.
1.2 Purpose—The purpose of this guide is to provide a series of options that organizations may implement to prepare for the environmental impacts and risks from changing environmental conditions, chronic weather patterns, natural or man-made disasters, and extreme weather events. This guide also encourages consistent management of risks from natural disasters to water resources. The guide presents practices and recommendations based on regions and planning horizons that provide institutional and engineering actions to reduce the physical and financial vulnerabilities attributable to changing environmental conditions. It presents available technologies, institutional controls, and engineering controls that can be implemented by individuals and organizations seeking to increase their adaptive and resiliency capacity.
1.2.1 The guide also provides some high-level options for the planning, selection, implementation, and review of strategies in order to ensure that the approach continues to be environmentally responsible, in the best interest of the public, reasonable, and cost effective. This guide ca...
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This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
Designation: E3136 − 18
Standard Guide for
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Climate Resiliency in Water Resources
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E3136; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This standard provides a set of options to plan for water resource resiliency and management in the
event of changing environmental conditions. This includes adapting local business and government
infrastructure to both chronic and natural conditions and extreme weather events that impact water
resources. It also includes planning in order to respond adequately to future sea level rise. It may not
apply to entities where such assessment and risk management is already widely available through
standard sets of guidance, such as the construction of green buildings or green infrastructure as part
ofthedecision-makingprocess.Thisstandardprovidesavoluntaryframeworkoftheriskmanagement
options and steps that may be beneficial to evaluate climate resiliency solutions. It provides strategies
for any organization, even those currently operating outside of various voluntary and regulatory
schemes. The environmental assessment and risk management strategies contained in this guide
recognize the overall value of existing approaches.This guide references and merges similar, effective
programs and tailors them to provide a consistent approach that will facilitate communication and
preparation to protect our national water resources from changing environmental conditions.
This standard guide presents a series of options for an individual, group, or entity to use where
protecting water resources is the objective. The goal is to help build strategies and plans for changing
environmental conditions and their impacts upon water resources.
1. Scope man-made disasters, and extreme weather events. This guide
also encourages consistent management of risks from natural
1.1 Overview—Water resources in NorthAmerica and other
disasters to water resources. The guide presents practices and
areas are subject to various impacts from chronic weather
recommendations based on regions and planning horizons that
patterns, as well as more frequent extreme weather events.
provide institutional and engineering actions to reduce the
These include drought, flooding, changes in stream patterns,
physical and financial vulnerabilities attributable to changing
increased or decreased run-off, and changes in water quality.
environmental conditions. It presents available technologies,
Water resources include both man-made and natural reservoirs,
institutional controls, and engineering controls that can be
rivers, streams, groundwater, and storage ponds. The infra-
implemented by individuals and organizations seeking to
structure for water supply, wastewater treatment, fire-fighting
increase their adaptive and resiliency capacity.
and agricultural uses are also subject to chronic weather
patterns and more frequent extreme weather related events. 1.2.1 The guide also provides some high-level options for
Thisguidewillprovideanexplanationoftechniquesusersmay the planning, selection, implementation, and review of strate-
employ to build resiliency and a planning outline for gies in order to ensure that the approach continues to be
municipalities, states and private industry in order to ensure
environmentally responsible, in the best interest of the public,
safe, future, effective availability of water resources.
reasonable, and cost effective. This guide can be used to
analyze the effectiveness of a community’s strategy.
1.2 Purpose—The purpose of this guide is to provide a
1.2.2 This guide ties into the ASTM E50 standards series
series of options that organizations may implement to prepare
for the environmental impacts and risks from changing envi- related to environmental risk assessment and management.
ronmental conditions, chronic weather patterns, natural or
1.2.3 Theguidedoesnotprovideriskassessment,perse,but
may help set priorities for a climate resiliency program.
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ThisguideisunderthejurisdictionofASTMCommitteeE50onEnvironmental
1.3 Safety—This standard does not purport to address all of
Assessment, Risk Management and CorrectiveAction and is the direct responsibil-
the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
ity of Subcommittee E50.07 on Climate and Community.
responsibility of the user to establish appropriate safety and
Current edition approved July 1, 2018. Published Augu
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